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Secure And Insecure Countries. In Light Of Egypt. An Open Thread.

Posted on January 31, 2011
I am always amazed and impressed and yet also somewhat skeptical of the courage of my firm's clients. Right after the fall of communism in Russia, we represented a whole slew of companies going into Russia's Far East, mostly in an effort to capture its natural resources of timber, fish and metals...

The Ease (Or Unease) Of Doing Business In China. A Stagnant China.

Posted on January 30, 2011
Though the World Bank's Doing Business Report for 2011 has already been out for a few months, I just saw a really good analysis of it today. The analysis is in the Fiducia Management Consultants' "Market Focus" Newsletter and it can be found here...

Cambodia As China Appendage. Not So Fast.

Posted on January 30, 2011
By: Steve Dickinson In an earlier post, entitled, "Cambodia: China's Newest Appendage," I commented on the rumors of extensive investment by China into Cambodia. The rumor at that time was that the 'Chinese' had agreed to make over $3.0 billion in investment in Cambodia's energy and transport sectors...

How Not To Get Kidnapped In China, Part 2. Resolve Your Debt Problems Before You Go.

Posted on January 29, 2011
A few weeks ago, a reader e-mailed me with an article regarding the jailing in Shanghai of California businessman Brian Horowitz over a debt he (his company?) allegedly owed a Chinese company. I have been assiduously following the case in the press for many reasons...

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Win-Win Negotiating In China. It Is More Than A Panda.

Posted on January 29, 2011
Every time I go to China, I come back planning to write an excoriating post on the place. I mean, let's face it, it is one of the (if not the) most exacerbating places on earth. I found it even more exacerbating this last time because before hitting China, I spent two and a half weeks in Vietnam (mostly Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi) and once again was shocked at how a country like Vietnam (which is considerably poorer than the places I tend to go in China) can, at least on some levels, appear to have its act so much more together than China...

The Death Of The China Blog Has Been Greatly Exaggerated.

Posted on January 29, 2011
Received an interesting email the other day from a loyal reader complimenting us for having maintained our "Alexa ranking" through the "downturn" in blog readership. I then checked our Alexa ranking, which ranking is allegedly based on the number of readers and it looked pretty good, at least as compared with other leading China blogs...

Current China Law And Business Issues

Posted on January 26, 2011
A few weeks ago, Steve and I spoke at AmCham (Beijing) regarding the China legal issues of which SMEs need be aware. After our talk, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Matt Wisla for around 20 minutes. That interview focused on the issues currently front and center for foreign businesses operating in China...

Five Business Challenges For SMEs In China.

Posted on January 25, 2011
Recently came across a very basic but very concise and accurate article setting forth the "five biggest practical challenges for foreign SMEs" doing business in China. The article was written by Anthony Goh and Matthew Sullivan, of US-Pacific Rim International and it is entitled, "The 5 Biggest Challenges Businesses Face When They Expand To China...

How To Negotiate With Chinese Companies.

Posted on January 25, 2011
Just read a really good International Herald Tribune article, entitled, "Avoiding Pitfalls, and Forging Success, in East-West Contract Negotiations." The article concisely sets out the basic underpinnings of what it takes to succeed in negotiating with Chinese companies...

China's Campaign Against Corruption

Posted on January 25, 2011
By: Steve Dickinson Earlier this month the PRC National Audit Office ??? issued its first two reports of the year. Report 1 provides the results of a major audit of state owned agencies and banks conducted at the request of the National People's Congress...

China GDP Growth And What It Means For Your Business.

Posted on January 24, 2011
By: Steve Dickinson The PRC Statistics Bureau has issued its preliminary report on the status of the Chinese economy [in Chinese] for the year 2010. As the report states, 2010 was 'all good' for the Chinese economy. This is a remarkable achievement considering that 2010 was a recovery year from the most significant worldwide recession since 1950...

China Domain Name Scams. It's A Scam!

Posted on January 23, 2011
If your company has done anything in China (even just sending someone there to meet with a supplier), you have probably received a somewhat official email offering, at a steep price, to "help" you stop someone from taking your domain name. DO NOT RESPOND...

AmCham-Shanghai's 2010 Report On China Business -- Required Reading

Posted on January 21, 2011
By Steve Dickinson and Dan Harris The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai just issued its 2010-2011 Business Report. This report should be required reading for all companies doing business in China or who are planning to do business in China. Our good friends over at Technomic Asia co-authored the report...

China Rare Earths Quotas -- The Facts And The Law

Posted on January 19, 2011
By Steve Dickinson The purpose of this post is to provide a factual and legal background to China's export quota program for rare earths. The Facts Rare earths are one of 49 products for which China imposes export quotas. Other products for which China imposes export quotas include grains such as corn and wheat, hydrocarbons such as coal and crude oil and various metals such as tin and zinc...

China Business After The Hu-Obama Summit. Same-O, Same-O.

Posted on January 19, 2011
Though we do not ordinarily delve much into China-US politics, I have been following the recent Obama-Hu summit so closely I cannot resist. Here are my thoughts on the business aspects of that summit. Overall, things have seemed to go well. The United States did the pomp and circumstance thing in grand style, which gave China the symbolism it wanted...

China Opening Up Health Care For WFOEs

Posted on January 18, 2011
As regular readers of this blog know, my favorite five industries for foreign investment in China are education, healthcare, food, cleantech/greentech, and software. Healthcare just got even better. The Chinese government has made clear for some time that it seeks to improve healthcare in China and it recently took another step in that direction by announcing that foreign companies may now own private hospitals in China outright...

What To Do About Chinese Companies Taking Your IP?

Posted on January 17, 2011
Last week, co-blogger Steve Dickinson and I spoke at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Beijing. From our perspective, the best part of our talk were the excellent questions posed to us by the reporters in attendance. There was one question I pretty much punted on and though I have thought much about it since, I still do not have a good answer...

What About Chinese Companies Taking Your IP?

What Every SME Needs To Know About Chinese Law. AmCham Beijing, January 11, 2011

Posted on January 08, 2011
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson and I will be speaking on January 11 at the next AmCham Small Business Forum Event breakfast here: AmCham-China Conference Center The Office Park, Tower AB, 6th Floor No. 10 Jintongxi Road, Beijing, 100020, PRC Tel: (8610) 8519-0800 Our topic will be "What every SME needs to know about Chinese Law...

The Five Steps To Successfully Buying Product From China.

Posted on January 07, 2011
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson and I had a wonderful dinner the other night with Renaud Anjoran. Renaud Anjoran is the founder of Sofeast, a quality assurance firm that assists small- and-medium importers with China quality control. Renaud has been based in Hong Kong and Shenzhen since 2006...

Minimum Capital Requirements. Good News For Small Companies Looking At Shanghai.

Posted on January 05, 2011
By: Steve Dickinson Shanghai has recently loosened its minimum capital requirements for WFOEs (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprises), making location of service businesses in Shanghai far more attractive. Chinese company law mandates all one shareholder corporations have a minimum registered capital of at least RMB100,000...

China Inflation And The Impact On Your Business

Posted on January 04, 2011
By: Steve Dickinson There are two related economic issues that are of primary importance to ordinary Chinese people. The first is the inflation in prices of basic necessities such as housing and food. The second is the lack of wage growth in the manufacturing and service sectors...

China Law Blog In Shanghai Today.

Posted on January 01, 2011
Co-blogger Steve Dickinson and I will be in Shanghai today. If you are interested in meeting with us, please contact us by pressing the contact button above and sending an email.

China's Courts. "Utterly Worthless" Is Probably An Overstatement.

Posted on December 31, 2010
In the early years of this blog, when discussing China's court system, I would make it a point to emphasize that I was limiting my comments to how the courts handle business law matters. I did this for two reasons. One, my sense is that the quality of court handling of business cases is very different from the quality of judging given to criminal matters...

China Rules Skype Illegal. Tell Me Something New.

Posted on December 31, 2010
I arrived in Shanghai the other day and my first meeting was with co-blogger, Steve Dickinson, who pronounced that Skype had been declared illegal. We both commented on how it is illegal, and then we started talking about inflation. Skype is illegal in China, of that there can be little doubt...

China Business Dinner Etiquette.

Posted on December 30, 2010
Nothing really new here, but the International Herald Tribune's Business Navigator section just came out with a concise explanation of the etiquette involved in Chinese business dinners. The article is entitled, "In China, Social Evenings Are Considered Part of the Business Routine," and, among other things, it notes the following: Business dinners are "a very important event...

The Truth About US-China Trade.

Posted on December 28, 2010
Just came across an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal that starkly highlights how global trade statistics may not always mean what they first appear to mean. The article was written by Andrew Batson and it uses the iPhone as an example of how even something viewed as of the United States can add to the United States' trade deficit with China...

The ABA Blawg 100. Vote China Law Blog!

Posted on December 28, 2010
We are still fighting to win the American Bar Association Best Blog award in our category for the fourth straight year. We started our campaign very late this year, but if we can get anywhere close to the same number of votes we got last year, we will win it...

Who's Stealing Your China Trade Secrets?

Posted on December 28, 2010
Smiling faces, sometimes, hey, they don't tell the truth. Smiling faces, smiling faces, tell lies and I got proof. Hey, your enemy won't do you no harm, cause you'll know where he's coming from. Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya, take my advice I'm only try' to school ya...

The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Wants You For What Your China Joint Venture Did.

Posted on December 27, 2010
We are always writing about how the United States Department of Justice is expanding its prosecution of Foreign Corrupt Practices cases and how that directly impacts your China business. Those previous posts include the following: China Bribes And Transparency: Why The FCPA Matters China And The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...

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